Housing & Homelessness Programs Budget Memo
The attached is a budget memo on human services housing and homelessness programs from the County Welfare Directors Association.
This memo provides analysis and budget investment options for maintaining funding for critical county-administered housing and homelessness programs, including Bringing Families Home (BFH), Home Safe, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Housing Support Program (HSP), and the Housing and Disability Advocacy Program (HDAP). The memo also offers data and examples of programmatic success in stabilizing, rapidly rehousing, and transitioning vulnerable populations at risk of homelessness into permanent housing while concomitantly advancing safety, permanency, and economic security for families in the child welfare system, low-income families receiving cash assistance through CalWORKs, older adults experiencing elder abuse, and people with disabilities.